Improvement in dead-carts



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS F. WHITE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEAD-CARTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168.438, dated October 5, 1875 application led June 1-2, w75.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS F. WHITE, of the city, county, and State otl New York, have invented a new and Improved Dead-Animal Truck, of which the following is a specication:

My invention consists of a box for a deadanimal truck, with air-tight packing for the door through which the animals are taken in and discharged; also with adoor at the front end for the hauling-chain, having air-tight packing, the object being to prevent the offensive smells to which people-are now exposed when dead animals are carted through the streets.

Figure lis a longitudinal sectional elevation of my improved dead-animal truck, the section being taken on line w x of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is an end elevation, and Fig. 3 is a section of Fig. l on line y y.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the close box, which is made air-tight, and is provided with packing B, ot' rubber or other liexible material, at the joints of the door G, and has a door, E, at the front end, t0

THOS. F. WHITE.

Witnesses:

C. SEDGWICK, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

